Triple Stitch Myachis

by Crazy Ivan

People often ask me which is the rarest Myachi and while I have an answer for that one (the Guatemalan Wallet), it's not a very honest answer.  The Guatemalan Wallet is the rarest because it's a one of a kind Myachi, but it's not the only one of a kind Myachi we've ever made.

There are some prototype Myachis where we made as few as 3 or 4 of altogether and since then all but one have been destroyed.  There are still other Myachis that were signed by a particular person (the coolest of which in my opinion is the Sabertooth that Animal got signed by the guy who played Sabertooth in the Wolverine origins flick).  These Myachis are all one of a kind so they're technically as rare as the Guatemalan Wallet even if they're not as valuable.

The other source for one of a kind sacks, of course, are mismades.

At Myachi we have a really high standard of quality and we're proud to say that we don't make many errors when it comes to producing Myachis.  But that's not to say that we haven't made an odd mistake here or there along the way.

In fact, in one instance a whole series was mismade.  The infamous "Triple Stitch" series was the end result of a failed manufacturing run.  After producing a few prototypes of really solid Myachis we placed an order with the factory to make a whole series.


Terrible jammers or no, you still want them, don't you?

 Every single one of them was made wrong and many of them were horribly wrong.  Some of them were misshapen, most of them were stiff and hard to jam with and they didn't come close to the high quality standard that we strive for in Myachi.

It was more than them being poorly made and inconsistent.  There was actually a fundamental error in the production.  They were "Triple Stitched".  Now, that's actually kind of a meaningless term in the garment industry, but it means a lot in the Myachi Industry.  In truth, somebody uttered once and it stuck.

So here's what it means: A properly made Myachi is stitched on three sides; the right side, the top and the left side.  This allows the Myachi to be made with two streams of stitching.  The first one is done on the interior of the Myachi and it closes off what will be the right side of the Myachi and the top.  This is also when the tag and powerloop get added.  Next the Myachi is turned inside out, filled with our secret blend of 11 herbs and spices and then the second stitch closes it off along the left side.

But this isn't how they made this series.  They stitched along the top and bottom before turning it inside out.  They actually did two separate threads so instead of the long side (bottom) of the Myachi being the "fold" or unstitched side, the far right side was the fold.  The result is that the Myachi is way stiffer and doesn't break in correctly.

Don't take this picture to mean that you should be trading
your 3S Dalmatian for a Lumberjack Yellow, though.

Clearly we couldn't sell them and the factory admitted their mistake so we didn't break the bank paying for them or anything, but what do you do with all these mismade Myachis?  We had almost 9,000 of these suckers and about 45 of them were true jammers.

Obviously the first thing we had to do was find a new factory so we got on that, but still we had a gazillion mismade Myachis to ponder over.  There weren't very many collectors back then and while we did contests here and there, we knew it would take a really long time to give away 9000 prizes.

Eventually Myachi Man hit upon a pretty cool idea that used this series as a decoration.  He bought a big Lucite pillar and filled it full of Triple Stitched Myachis.  We brought it to trade shows to draw attention and nowadays it sits in the office at HQ to make every visitor salivate:

You'll notice a lot of sand mixed in.  Like I said, they didn't meet our high quality
standards.  After 6 or 7 years a few of them broke open.

In the decade plus since then we've given away a ton of these Myachis and all that we have left is that tiny little amount you see above.  Those ones will eventually work their way into the Myachi community as contest prizes and thank you gifts, but until then it sits by the door reminding us the importance of quality.  And how much we wish we had more yellow wetsuits.